Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship : Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study /: Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simone Guercini, Gabi Dei Ottati, Loretta Baldassar, Graeme Johanson.
• Editors: Guercini, Simone; Dei Ottati, Gabi; Baldassar, Loretta; Johanson, Graeme
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: Introduction -- Liabilities of native and immigrant entrepreneurship in the process of globalization -- Chinese immigration to Italy and economic relations with the homeland: A multiscalar perspective -- A social accounting matrix for Prato: Interrelating the Chinese migrant community and the provincial economy -- Ethnography of the fast fashion community: Chinese entrepreneurs in Prato -- Italian-schooled Chinese migrant youth in Prato: The liability of outsidership and social identity formation -- Smartphones and outsidership in Prato’s small business community -- Liabilities of foreignness and of outsidership in the evolution of immigrant Chinese entrepreneurship -- Liabilities in the Prato’s industrial district: An analysis of Italian and Chinese firm failures -- The mechanism of sustained immigrant entrepreneurship: Wenzhounese immigrants in Italy -- Understanding Chinese immigrants in Prato’s industrial district: Benefits to local entrepreneurs -- Concluding remarks: The benefits of overcoming local liabilities.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 381; Business; Business and Management; Emerging Markets/Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Migration; Industrial Organization; Social Policy; Regional and Cultural Studies; Culture -- Study and teaching; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Markets; Industrial organization; Social policy; Emigration and immigration; Entrepreneurship -- Congresses; Economics literature; International business; Business; Culture -- Study and teaching; Economics literature; Emigration and immigration; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Industrial organization; Markets; Social policy; Business & Economics -- Entrepreneurship; Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration; Business & Economics -- Industrial Management; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Social Science -- General; Entrepreneurship; Migration, immigration & emigration; Economics of industrial organisation; Central government policies; Cultural studies; Management science; Migration; Business & Economics -- General; Market research; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319441116; 9783319441115
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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